We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Re the UN Climate Chief and "2 years to irreversable climate change..."

Sure, buddy. Remember, we've been dead for 25+ years now, killed by catastrophic warming we were warned we only had five years to reverse.

"Guterres rejected claims from critics who say that shifting away from fossil fuels like oil and coal would be costly, calling that notion “hogwash.”"

Germany found it wasn't - that it was far too expensive. They had to go back to coal - lignite coal - that was quite... dirty as far as the atmosphere went. Net loss there...

If the anti-warming folk were REALLY serious, there'd have been an all-out, throttles to the firewall push BY THEM from the start to develop nuclear power. Instead, a lot of connected folks got good money to put up windmills and solar panels that have a ROI that'll never work out.

So California, the state with the most illegal aliens, receives up to 5 more congressional seats thanks to illegal aliens.

About 5% of California's population is undocumented, so that would translate into 2-3 seats. But that assumes they are the only state with undocumented residents. In fact, all the border states; Arizona, New Mexico, Texas; have a population of undocumented residents of about 4-5%. Other states also have large numbers of undocumented residents. The uneven distribution does change the allotment of seats, but not by nearly as many seats as stated.

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The U.S. population that logically should be enumerated includes U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents (immigrants). As only the former may vote in federal elections, the apportionment of seats in Congress should be done on the basis of the number of citizens in each state.

That would require a constitutional amendment. Why not just count the voting age population, or registered voters? Maybe go full-on elitist, and only count property owners, or people who pay the income tax, for the purposes of representation. Why should children and the insane get representation. Maybe count blacks as 3/5 ...

This is where you point out the errors. Then we fix them, where appropriate. Are you saying it would not take a constitutional amendment? The constitution says "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State" Are you arguing that children and undocumented residents are not persons?

DrTorch: Anyway, it's comical that you end in snark, b/c it's just further evidence that you can't actually think about these issues, you just parrot the party line. Even when it's demonstrably nonfactual.

Anyway, it's comical that you end in snark, b/c it's just further evidence that you can't actually think about these issues, you just parrot the party line. Even when it's demonstrably nonfactual.

The Falsebot has resorted to repeating back replies from real human people persons word for word. It's become a trend.

This indicates - exactly per opinion about falsebotism of late - that it cannot process subjective, organic thought from real human people persons. While it's Pedantry Module 1500 and Sheer Falsehood Unit 5000 are unmitigated successes, obviously it cannot deal with next-level resistance, that being direct challenges to the falseness of its core programming.

It can find no references over on Google to but you're the epitome of bad faith arguments, Falsebot, and since you have made yourself predictably meddlesome and loathsome you'll get no more from me.

Nice graph of the "estimated unauthorized immigrant population." There is no explanation for how those "estimates" were derived and since we constantly hear about all those "unauthorized immigrants" are in the shadows, I would give very little credence to them.

With the Borg it is always about the maintaining of a politically correct narrative of utopian administrative expertise in which no subject shall be discussed and decided upon except by the authoritarian socialists. Trump and the deplorables really, really, chap their asses.

It's from the same source as cited in the original article, Pew Research.

mudbug: There is no explanation for how those "estimates" were derived

It says it right there: "Pew Research Center estimates for 2005-2016 based on augmented American Community Survey data (IPUMS); for 2016 and 1995-2004 based on March Supplements of the Current Population Survey. Estimates for 1990 from Warren and Warren (2013)."

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